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Former Virginia Tech assistant football coach Shane Beamer, who is now an assistant at Georgia, has been fined $25,000 after being identified as a recipient of game-planning materials from former Wake Forest radio analyst Tommy Elrod, according to a news release Thursday from Georgia’s athletic department.

Beamer’s fine is a result of his role in what was first revealed Dec. 13 via an internal investigation by Wake Forest, which discovered Elrod “provided or attempted to provide” game plans for future Demon Deacons football games over the course of the last three seasons.

“While at Virginia Tech, I was contacted by Tommy Elrod the night before our game against Wake Forest in...

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